Thursday, May 28, 2015

At this week's Geospatial World Forum in Lisbon, the worldwide UNIGIS organisation as a network of academic partner institutions offering graduate qualifications in Geoinformatics was presented with the 'Geospatial Institution of the Year' award, recognizing our leading role in 'Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide'.

Prof Marco Painho from UNIGIS Portugal and Dr Shahnawaz from UNIGIS India joined UNIGIS Int'l chair Prof Josef Strobl accepting this award during the Geospatial World Awards Gala evening on May 27.

Friday, May 22, 2015

The University of Salzburg with its Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS is offering up to 10 partial scholarships for UNIGIS distance learning MSc students for students from Russia and CIS countries. UNIGIS Salzburg is inviting applications for scholarships covering approx. 60% of the Euro 9800.- tuition fee.

Following the vision of 'Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide', the UNIGIS MSc degree is a highly regarded and widely acknowledged postgraduate qualification offered in English language. Candidates from the Russia / CIS region are offered the opportunity of Russian language consultation, guidance and support.

Applications for scholarships will be ranked based upon prior knowledge, a detailed letter of motivation, date of application and regional diversity. Applicants have to fulfill University of Salzburg admission requirements. Deadline for applications is August 31, the course will start in October 2015.

Friday, May 8, 2015

UNGIS will be present again at the INSPIRE Geospatial World Forum, this year in Lisbon from 25-29 May. We invite you to come and visit us in our booth in section D12, where our UNIGIS ambassadors are pleased to inform you about our study programmes and latest activities.

You are also welcome to attend the GeoCapacity session on Monday 25 May, starting 3 pm, where Dr. Shahnawaz presents his point of view on capacity building.

Our office has a few visitor passes available for those interested to visit the exhibition. Please send an email to office.uia@unigis.net to request a visitor pass.